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One of the new building at the Yakutsk State University. Yakutia is relatively rich thanks to its bountiful natural resources, and the state of infrastructures in the city is generally much better than in the rest of Russia. However, like everywhere else, the signs of the crisis of the ruble show up. Yakutsk is full of new building, stopped halfway from completion because of the lack of hard currency to pay foreign contractors.

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